This is the post that I will be/ will have been referencing
during my presentation to the Seattle Central Community College’s
Byte club on Thursday, December 10th at 1500-1630.

I will begin with a bit of an autobio and find out what kind of
students we have in attendance. Please feel free to comment if
you’d like to keep in touch before or after the presentation. I
will discuss some of the bits and pieces of some industry
standard platforms which I’ve developed, deployed, maintained,
managed, co-operated, administered and replaced. We can discuss
some of the patterns that work well in the industry, and some
that are a bit harder to tame.

Once we have touched most of the areas of specialization
represented at the meeting, I will dive in to an AngularJS demo I
am developing in github here:

I feel a sense of pride when I think that I was involved in the
development and maintenance of what was probably the first piece
of software accepted into Debian which then had and still has
direct up-stream support from Microsoft. The world is a better
place for having Microsoft in it. The first operating system I
ever ran on an 08086-based CPU was MS-DOS
2.x. I remember how thrilled I was when we got to see how my
friend’s 80286 system ran BBS software that would cause a modem
to dial a local system and display the application as if it were
running on a local machine. Totally sweet.

When we were living at 6162 NE Middle in the nine-eight 292, we
got an 80386 which ran Doom. Yeah, the original one, not the
fancy new one with the double barrel shotgun, but it would
probably run that one, too. It was also …

I was working on a server today that was not hooked up to our
usual monitoring systems for one reason or another and I needed
to generate a database tuning report. Typically I use Matthew
Montgomery’s ‘tuning-primer.sh’ script for this since it’s
command line based, simple to use, and generates a number of
useful items for tuning recommendations. It’s a great starting
point before delving into the deeper aspects of MySQL and the OS.

I ran into an issue with it on this server that was running the
MySQL 5.0.77-percona-highperf-b13-log x86_64 build. The error
was:./tuning-primer.sh.1: line 517: 5.000000: syntax error in
expression (error token is ".000000")

Back in the day, I played video games on computers and not much
else. My mom had recently bought a 386 for the family. When she
was at the computer store, the clerk asked her if she had any
kids. When she replied that she had four boys, he gave her a free
copy of ID Software's Doom:

One of my friends told me that this "Linx" thing is really great.
That it is *much more* efficient than the windows 95 thing our
cousin had gotten a beta release of.

I also heard through the grapevine that Doom, the game that got
me playing computer games, had been ported to this new operating
system. I went to Barnes and Noble and looked through their books
on "Linx" but couldn't find anything on the subject. I had done a
bit of research on the …

I had a conversation with Daniel Dittmar, one of the developers
on the SAP team today. I am trying to get familiar with the MaxDB
codebase, and it's difficult to do without at least a bit of
explanation. The inline English documentation is written by
native German speakers, so it's often difficult to discern.
Having this map will help me quite a bit. I hope it helps some
others as well.

Thanks very much to Daniel for putting an evening in to
documenting this.

12:56 < cj> DanielD: can you point me to some docs on the
maxdb source code?
12:56 < cj> why are the different parts named with such
short and
difficult-to-remember names? :)
12:57 < DanielD> partly, because if you work with them day
in, day out, you
remember them anyway and they are easier to type
12:57 < cj> :)
12:58 < DanielD> what documentation there is, is either …

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